From Days Gone By June 12, 1913

June 12, 1913.

    Several went from Wrightsville to the picnic at Idylwild and met with friends from Wadley. The Summer School now in session at Warthen College has a very good attendance in all branches. Prof. E. L. Faircloth will conduct an all day singing at Beulah Church.

    That portion of Railroad Avenue leading from the foot of East Elm Street to the W. & T. depot is being repaired and put in excellent condition. This is a much used thoroughfare which has been ruff for pedestrians and vehicles. Judge William Faircloth whose property borders the entire length of the street has spent a considerable sum of his own money for the improvements, with the assistance of the city.

    Mr. & Mrs. Hitchcock are now boarding at the Dickens House. Mr. & Mrs. Freeman Hataway announce the birth of a son on June 10th. C. D. Kavakos is expecting a consignment of fine Georgia raised watermelons at the Kandy Kitchen. The interior of the building occupied by the Wrightsville Drug Co. has been repaired and re-arranged and put on a firmer foundation as the floor was in a sad state of repair. The First National Bank of Wrightsville's statement of condition was $167,902.40.

    Councilman Thomas L. Martin, chairman of the water and light committee has been confined to home on account of sickness. Mr. J. B. Harrison is now able to be up on crutches and is out looking after his duties as city electrician.

    Mr. Lee Rogers on returning from the reunion in Chattanooga arrived at Tennille in a demented condition. Sheriff Hamilton of Washington County was sent to take charge of him, and he wired Sheriff Rowland that he was bringing him home. Once home he seemed mentally alright. Later he suddenly became insane and grew desperate, his violent conduct causing the family great alarm. Sheriff Rowland was sent for and transferred him to the jail, as the only alternative, where he will remain until a trial for lunacy will be held soon. It was said he went to the reunion with over $100 and was hit and robbed while in Chattanooga.

    The "dismantled" stoves and "relegated" wraps were much in demand yesterday and the day before. Those two days especially were "coolish" and out of season, and for the time the ice man was knocked out and the coal man in demand.